Example sentences of "upon [conj] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He proposed that a prosecution should not be embarked upon or continued unless the prosecutors were satisfied there was reliable evidence . |
| 2 | This movement ‘ down ’ from God to man expresses and reveals the character and nature of God himself ; for his being is not separate from his action ; and in the answering movement ‘ up ’ from man to God , we see that human existence itself is grounded upon and made to answer to the divine initiative . |
| 3 | It is difficult to assess what one learns from a good teacher — I was so greedy to learn that one can not always separate what was given from what one has seized upon and made one 's own . |
| 4 | He was set upon and punched as he walked near the park 's tennis courts and the robbers made off with his wallet and jacket . |
| 5 | Will the Minister give a commitment that the present adult education programme will be built upon and secured , or are the Government pulling the ladder away from thousands of our fellow citizens who have prospered from adult education in the past ? |
| 6 | Although Kandinsky proclaimed the vital importance of the inner and personal inspiration it is extraordinary how he seized upon and exploited the styles of Matisse , Malévich , Klee , Arp and the Surrealists . |
| 7 | Kelly also has two shows of brand new work on the boards these days : one , of paintings at Blum Helman from 11 November to 2 January , and another at Castelli from 21 November to 19 December in which he abandons the wall in favour of a large piece meant to be looked down upon and circumambulated . |
| 8 | Edward , hoping to slink past unnoticed , was pounced upon and told to hurry to his classroom , where the Lower Fourth had an exhibition with a literary theme . |
| 9 | When they go to a match they are as a matter of course spat upon and jostled , threatened and assaulted ’ — The Times . |
| 10 | Every piece of bad news is seized upon and trumpeted , all good news is turned upside down to have its dark potential minutely examined . |
| 11 | For centuries , from Captain Cook and Conrad to Gauguin and Robert Louis Stevenson , westerners have fed upon and nurtured these myths . |
| 12 | The parallelism between these two rhythms and performance has been commented upon and illustrated before . |
| 13 | There is no one ‘ best ’ policy , merely one that secures a broad enough basis of support to be agreed upon and passed . |
| 14 | Theology in the last sixty years or so has naturally built upon and extended aspects of the work of its nineteenth-century predecessors ; but it has also gone through some striking changes of direction , especially from the aims and programme of Liberal Theology . |
| 15 | Since then anyone who had been unwise enough to venture along the corridor had been pounced upon and picked clean . |
| 16 | Here , in the summer of the year 778 , the rear guard of the army of the Christian King Charlemagne , on its way back into France from Spain and from warring with the paynim hordes of Islam , was set upon and routed . |
| 17 | The clinical approach to family planning in which medical staff advised upon and provided services at the hospital was replaced by an extension approach in which a vast array of extension agents and network of services in the countryside was set up , using many techniques of marketing and advertising adapted to the Indian context . |
| 18 | Other stories of bystanders who suffered included that of a man going home from his work in a bookmaker 's shop in the Waterside when he was set upon and batoned . |
| 19 | When teachers feel put upon and pushed around , hectored , lectured and badgered , their confidence and enthusiasm are undermined and their willingness and ability to contribute to the development of young people , as well as each other , suffers . |
| 20 | Sherrington underlines the statement that ‘ the brain is always the part of the nervous system which is constructed upon and evolved upon the ‘ ’ distance receptor' ’ organs ' . |
| 21 | The allegations made in the Summons should , assuming proper investigation , be capable of being commented upon and answered . |
| 22 | Palms were spat upon and smacked together . |
| 23 | Dr Simpson 's results were immediately pounced upon and found wanting by other groups , who used a different type of instrument and saw no effect . |
| 24 | The other reason for looking for an approximate solution is that once it has been found such an approximate solution can then be worked upon and modified to give a much better solution . |
| 25 | Whether their instructions were followed to the letter is , of course , a different matter ; they do , however , come from an era when short cuts and convenience were frowned upon and considered synonyms for dirtiness and sloppiness . |
| 26 | Darwin 's thinking both drew upon and transcended the conventional ideas of his time . |
| 27 | This scientism took as axiomatic that systematic and reasoned study , its methods reflected upon and sanctified by epistemology , could generate ‘ truth ’ . |
| 28 | Worked upon and reinterpreted , the landscape becomes an historical landscape , but only through continual and active reworking . |